WEBVTT - Takeaways from the 2026 U.S. Open with Trevor Immelman 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.760 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:04.880 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:06.920 And when I find my ball in a brid egg 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:09.120 Frida egg, the dreaded Frida egg. 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:11.760 Frida egg Frida egg bride egg. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:14.080 Lie, I'm about ready to run off the golf course. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.720 Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:45.080 I am your host, Andy Johnson, and as always, following 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.840 our major championship coverage, I am joined by the great 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.440 Trevor Immelman. Uh to break down this year's US Open. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:53.599 Uh. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:57.280 That was a thrill ride of a Sunday with Wyndham 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:02.120 Clark eventually holding on over Sam Burns to win the 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:07.039 US Open, his second US Open title amidst a very 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.959 unique and interesting crowd in New York. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:12.480 It was a bit hostile towards Window Clark. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:17.520 So we break down the tournament together and kind of 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:22.200 talk about everything from Window Clark's you know, come back here, 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:27.160 to the fan behavior and as well as you know, 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.440 kind of all the other main characters at this year's 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:35.240 US Open. But first, this episode is brought to you 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.920 by our friends over at max Fi. 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What are your big picture thoughts of 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:21.719 the US Open and what was it like, you know, 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:23.960 get this at your own schedule for the first time 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.720 in a while for a major. 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.599 Well, Andy, it was awesome. I mean, look, I'm such 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.480 a golf nut that any way, shape or form that 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.360 that I could be a part of it. I love it, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.080 whether I'm a fan at home sitting on the couch 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.800 like I was for this US Open, or whether I'm 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:46.680 on site working the broadcast. I just love seeing great 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.200 historic golf courses, good tests for these guys, the biggest 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.040 championships in the world. You know, you could really feel 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.880 all week that it means something to be at Shinnecock. 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:57.760 It means something to be able to play in the 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.360 US Open, and so I got a real kick out 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.240 of that. And then you add to that how it 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.880 kind of works alongside Father's Day, which gives you an 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.240 excuse to spend even more hours on the couch, and 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.040 so I had a blast. Man. I thought the build 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:18.560 up was fantastic, the anticipation of this great venue, with 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.799 the weather and the wind, and how the golf course 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.560 was going to play, who's inform, who's struggling, who can 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.920 play in all these crosswinds. There was so much great 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.760 build up to follow along with. And then, you know, 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.839 the beauty of live sports is you never quite know 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.760 what's going to happen once the tournament starts. And you know, 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.680 the first day was obviously a little different to what 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.440 we anticipated with that afternoon wave. Rarely getting a good 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.200 break and having some great opportunities to make some birdies. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.960 But the USGA overall, for me, did a fantastic job. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.960 Man every day just started ratcheting up the pressure and 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.520 the shot quality that these guys needed to hit in 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:04.080 order to survive and make a few birdies. And so 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.200 it was. It was marvelous. I loved it. I loved 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:06.960 everything about it. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.080 I think, you know, if we zero in on the 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.280 course before we get to window Clark and kind of 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.240 the feet of winning his second US Open title, I 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.800 felt like the knives were out from people that were 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.520 kind of watching, uh not on the grounds. 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.640 The knives were out, ready to pounce. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.480 And there's just, you know this I think sentiment that 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.040 that's grown that the US Open. We want the carnage 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.520 back in the US Open. And I think everybody anticipated 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.800 Shinnacock being this car, this course that's going to dole 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.720 out carnage, especially with the wind forecasts. And meanwhile you 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:51.600 had this other organization that the last two times they've 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:56.120 been at Shitacock, they've had some controversies in terms of 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.560 the setup, and it was this kind of almost mismatch 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.559 in expectations. I feel like from the from the fan 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:11.400 to the to the the tournament host, and I think 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.960 we got there at the end to where everybody it 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.880 seemed like everybody was happy at the end, but it 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:20.120 was it was a ride where there was some disgruntled 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:25.440 fans or spectators or interested parties along the way. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.840 Yeah, for sure. I mean looked like you say. A 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.680 large part of that is because of the two previous 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.839 US Opens that were held at Chinnecock Hills. Four. I 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.679 played in that one, it was one of my first 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:42.560 US Opens, and then eighteen where both times, you know, shucks. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:48.400 I remember in four getting to that seventh tee and 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.560 having to wait on the tee as they were watering 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.680 the green because guys were just putting it off into 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.680 the bunker, and so they kind of lost the course 0:08:55.760 --> 0:09:00.000 that time around. Happened again in eighteen. Some some unbelievable 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.040 footage there of interviews from players as they're coming off 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.120 the greens. Remember Zach Johnson. You remember Phil running after 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.760 the ball and hitting it while it's still moving. And 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.600 so I think the usj were aware of that, and 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.760 they knew that they had to get this right. They 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.400 could not go three in a row and have something 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.640 untoward happened, and so they were probably a little defensive, 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:28.760 and I totally get that. I understand that, but I 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.920 agree with you. You know, at the end of the week, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:36.319 you've got three players under par, winners at four under, 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:42.000 and they did a marvelous job, great job just controlling 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.960 the firmness. I would have loved to have seen the Greens' 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.679 hair faster, but it's just so difficult when you're that 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:57.679 close to the water to judge and know with certainty 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.480 how strong the wind is going to be. And as 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.160 you start getting the greens firmer, if that wind just 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.960 kicks up a few miles an hour more than what 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.760 you're anticipating or preparing for, then all of a sudden 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.720 you may have to stop playing because balls are moving. 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.439 And so I totally get it. And at the end 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:19.080 of the week, I took my cap to the USGA 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:25.000 and really appreciate what they did to get through the 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:29.200 week unscathed and allow for a perfect championship to take place. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:35.640 For you, as somebody's who's played the vast majority of 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.520 these US Open courses, I mean I think they've you know, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:44.560 they've pretty much locked in their their regular championship sites 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.240 Shittacock Hills is a once to ten year site for them, 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.280 which feels like kind of the right cadence for the 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:57.800 club and the USGA in terms of after while it's 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.679 fresh in your mind, where where do you think it 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:05.360 falls in terms of the host sites that the USGA has. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:13.160 I mean, it's up there in so many ways. The history, 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:20.040 the clubhouse, the golf course, the routing, the green complexes 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:26.600 are phenomenal. I loved what Bodenhammer said earlier in the 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:30.760 week in his press conference, which I thought was really 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.439 cool when he explained, you know, the test in Shinnecock 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.880 is it asks more questions and it gets tougher the 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.720 closer you get to the green. In a lot of ways, 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:43.160 it's a little bit like Augusta National in that sense 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:45.199 where you've got a little bit of space, you've got 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.320 some room to be an artist, but you know, when 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.160 you get down to the greens, you're really going to 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.120 have to have great nerve. And I enjoyed that aspect 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:58.040 of it, and really even you can look to the 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.840 final hole of the tournament, Wyndham's got this one shot lead. 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.520 He doesn't hit the best of drives, He's coming out 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.360 the rough. He's now got to guess how fast this 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.120 ball is going to come out. He knows if he 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.360 goes along, very difficult up and down, so he's trying 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.800 to tiptoe up to the front and keep it on 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.920 the green, does that and then still has such a 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.160 difficult two put in order to win the tournament with 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.560 all that pressure on the line. So it's just just 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:30.360 a marvelous venue. And I think, you know, we're like 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.120 the one in every ten years, one in every eight years. 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.199 I kind of like that for a venue like Shinnecock 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:42.880 Hills because it maintains the mystique about the place and 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.160 it allows people to really look forward to getting to 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.319 see it on TV or getting to see it as 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:52.800 a fan if you get on site for the US Open. 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.880 So I think it works really well. 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.880 Yeah, I think that the cadence of that. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.520 I'm not the biggest fan of the you know, we're 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.760 going back to Pinehurst in two years, you know, I 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.760 feel like that's almost too quick where it's you know, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.760 it was two years ago we watched that, and you know, 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.400 given how big the country is and how many great 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.640 golf courses there are in America, it feels like some 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:23.120 regional diversity and course diversity is in there, you know now, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:24.920 and then you have, you know, on the other end 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.840 of the spectrum. You know, what a venue I thought 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.080 was marvelous a couple of years ago was the country 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.520 Club and it seems like they're on the once every 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.280 twenty year, you know. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:38.079 Kind of rotation. So it's interesting how they've set it up. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:42.640 I would agree with you about it being at the 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.200 top or near the top. I think the thing that 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.840 I took away from it is I really like and 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.120 this is just a personal taste, and I think, you know, 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.640 different people have different tastes, but I really like the 0:13:55.720 --> 0:14:00.160 venues where you can pass the first test, which is 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.600 the t shot, where hey, if I'm driving the ball 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:08.000 great at Shitnacock Hills, there's a real chance that I'll 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:12.280 hit every shot on a day from the fairway, and 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:16.080 if I'm driving it awesome making good decisions that feels 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.520 like something that should be achievable if you have a 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:25.360 spectacular day, you know. And with that though, that's where 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.360 it gets so challenging. And as you said, you know, 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:33.120 in both recounting Bodenhammer, you know, it gets more difficult 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.480 the closer you get to the hole. And I think 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:40.240 that's the fascinating thing about about Shitnacock is just there 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.640 are real questions about where where do I lay this? 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.400 And I think like we did a thing with Ben 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.920 Griffin before the before the week where he was talking 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.520 about ten and he went into a marvelous detail about 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.240 the tenth hole about what what you know, you know, 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.240 I could lay back, I could go down, and by 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.560 the end you could tell he kind of got to 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.080 this point and he said something along the lines of, 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.000 you know, I don't really know what the right thing 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.000 to do is. And I think there are a lot 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:14.680 of situations at Shinnacock that leave you with that, yeah, 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.360 of I'm not sure I played that right. If you 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.480 made a birdie, you definitely think you played it right, but. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:23.720 Like you may not. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.640 And I think that's what makes it such a compelling 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.360 venue in terms of, you know, the wind direction changes 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.680 and it completely shifts the dynamics of of what to 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.880 do or what you know is the ideal play on 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:37.560 a given hole. 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:42.080 Yeah, that tenth hole to me is it's got to 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.920 be one of the best holes in championship golf. It's 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.600 so much fun. You know, we don't see it all 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.680 that often anymore. I know you and I are on 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:56.160 the same side of the distance debate and technology debate, 0:15:56.280 --> 0:16:01.640 but it's not often you see anymore where the players 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:07.120 of this generation have to think so much about strategy 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.000 and trying to figure out what the best way is 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.160 to unlock a golf hole and have an opportunity at 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:16.160 the very least to make four pars in a hole 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.560 and not blow yourself out of making a cut or 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.480 blow yourself out of winning the tournament. And you know, 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.440 we saw everything there. We saw mid irons off the tea, 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.480 we saw fairway woods, we saw driving irons, we saw drivers, 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.920 We saw guys laying back and leaving themselves one hundred 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.880 and ninety yards to the hole. We saw Rory almost 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.360 drive it on the green on Saturday, and then he 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:43.600 missed the green on his second shot Like this. It's 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:48.000 one of those holes where just bombing it way down 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.400 there isn't always your best play, and unfortunately we see 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.440 that a lot in this modern game. And so I 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:59.160 just loved watching the tenth hole this week and seeing, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.200 you know, you consider how Wyndham played the tenth hole 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:06.640 yesterday with the little chippy drive things weren't going He's way. 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.720 It all made a nice up and down there at nine, 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.359 but he had coughed up the majority of the lead 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.040 and he hits up like a real golf shot off 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.919 the tee, not a full steam driver. He took probably 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:25.040 fifteen to twenty miles an hour of speed off for 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:29.479 that and managed to coax it down that little funnel 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.560 and get it running down there. And then the shot 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.439 he's hit, the control and the amount of spin that 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.760 he was able to generate from around seventy yards to 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.800 get that ball to land into the ridge and then 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:44.000 spin down to the hole. That was real golf right there. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.520 And the fact that he and Scotty both birdied that 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.320 hole in the final round I thought was kind of 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.400 fun because we saw so many players coming undone there 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:55.600 throughout the week. I thoroughly enjoyed that tenth hole. It's 0:17:55.640 --> 0:18:00.200 a beauty. 0:17:58.840 --> 0:17:59.480 The tenth hole. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.520 It was super pivotal in the in the tournament and 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.040 the last time we were at Shittacock we saw people 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.879 just like basically lose the tournament on the first hole 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:14.000 of their day on the tenth. This year on Saturday, 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.359 you saw Rory that where he hits that mammoth ty 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.359 shot almost drives the green, then he misses the green. 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:21.800 He leads to bogie. 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.639 That was kind of the start of the unraveling of 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.200 him from in the hunt to out of the tournament. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.800 You saw Sam Burns, who is moving along and this is, 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.080 I think what you alluded to. I was following that 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.280 group and all of a sudden, I'm looking where he's 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:42.600 hitting from. I'm like, what do you mishitted off the tee? 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.239 Like how is he so far back? He has one 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:49.280 hundred and ninety plus into the green and he has 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.040 a really good shot, almost makes a birdie there. But 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:55.800 then you and I'm looking at the flag and I'm like, 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.600 I don't you know, this is something I think about, 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.240 you know, with players that have reached the level that 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.520 you've reached in your life, players that are playing there. 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:06.560 I look at that flag and I'm like. 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.280 There's nobody that's going to hit it remotely close to 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.480 this flag. The other one yesterday that I looked at 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:15.639 and I don't think anybody hit it really close to 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:19.480 that I saw was fifteen. I'm you know, under no 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:21.960 circumstances can you hit the ball close to this flag 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.600 but without fail, you know, one of these freaks always 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.640 hits it close to it and the Windom shot, I mean, 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.159 what the Scottie shot right before I'm watching it on 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.840 my phone. I'm like, my god, that was an incredible shot, 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.920 and then Windham hits it. I couldn't believe the amount 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:39.560 of spin he was able to generate on that. 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:44.679 Yeah, yeah, I know. It's uh, you know, playing at 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.760 that level for a little while and now watching it 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:52.280 really up up close and observing all the intricacies of it, 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.720 you know, it is fascinating week after week to see 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.680 the shots that these guys hit under this sort of pressure. 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.919 I get a real kick out of watching. You go 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:05.280 back to the tenth hole. You know, Windom clock played 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.120 that hole in two under for the week. Sam Burns 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.480 played that hole in one over for the week. So 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:13.720 that's a three shot swing right there on the tenth. 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:17.399 I just love it when the best players in the 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:22.040 world get given options and then they can figure out 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.720 how they can use their weapons with the elements that 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:32.160 they have in that moment regarding firmness, wind, direction, where 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.080 they are on the tournament, all that kind of stuff, 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.119 and then have to pick an option and try and 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:42.040 unlock a golf hole. To me, I think there's real 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.560 artistry and beauty in that, and it's one of the 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.359 things that I really love about this game. 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:53.320 You know, years ago, when I was first getting to 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:58.080 know our mutual friend Jeff Ogilvie, he said something to 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.840 me that stuck and I hadn't put this together. He 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:03.399 once said, he said to me, you know, one of 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.160 the shames of golf is that we don't You don't 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:10.680 that fans don't regularly get to see all the shots 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.480 that we can hit, Like all the most of the 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:20.359 golf courses don't ask questions hard enough where where the 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.960 elite of the game hit all the shots that they can. 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.800 And I think that's one of the enthralling things about Shinnakok. 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:30.080 And you saw it play out, if you just wanted 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:35.359 to examine Sunday, you saw some extraordinary shot making. You know, 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.280 we've hit on this the shot by Windham on ten. 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.600 But if you if you drill into the circumstance of 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:46.800 like you just played a terrible nine, like pretty horrendous nine. 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:49.040 There were a lot of bad shots. You know, you 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:51.880 think about the way he played five, the way he's 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:56.080 escaped on six. You know, the t shot on eight, 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:59.600 you know, the way he scraped around a par on nine, 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:02.240 and then you go to this tenth hole and it's 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:05.800 the most demanding shot of all And I mean he 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:08.320 took on a lot of risk with that shot. 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:09.680 Yeah, pull it off. 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:12.000 Yeah, I mean that to me that you just took 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:16.480 the word out of my mouth right there, Because when 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:20.600 you give these guys options, you know, now it's it 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:25.120 becomes like a risk assessment situation for them. And he's 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:29.400 just played this terrible front nine of three over. He's 0:22:29.440 --> 0:22:31.960 lost all the momentum. The crowd has turned on him 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.199 there against him. They want Sheffler or Burns or somebody 0:22:35.200 --> 0:22:39.520 else to win. And you know, so now he's weighing 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:42.679 up what the options are. And when you have like 0:22:42.800 --> 0:22:48.359 this risk assessment decision to make now, doubt can creep in. 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:52.800 And doubt is the biggest killer in any golfer's game, 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:56.480 whether you're an eighteen handicapper or the best player in 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:58.600 the world. When you're standing over a shot and you 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:03.000 not totally can convinced that you're making the right play, 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:09.440 that's when funky stuff starts to happen. And I mean 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:11.879 he just faced it head on there, decided to go 0:23:11.960 --> 0:23:16.080 with the driver and it paid off for him, and 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:21.320 that really jump started his his play and him getting 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:24.320 his nose in front again and getting things going his way, 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:27.920 and then he built up that nice cushion to be 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:30.400 able to play the last two holes a little bit 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:31.400 more defensively again. 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:37.600 Obviously, one of the big stories about Windham is kind 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:43.480 of how how the week went for Wyndam Clark. Obviously, 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:46.399 on the right side of the draw. He came in 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:49.200 playing you know, a number of terms that you called 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:53.240 fantastic golf, playing some of the best golf of his career, 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.920 on the lead, on the lead in he gets the 0:23:56.040 --> 0:23:58.880 right side of the draw and it leads to this 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:03.840 wired wire victory of the US Open. But you know, 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:07.240